A couple of debates are going on, and I think it makes sense to have one place to discuss that's not buried in various OT threads.
Right now, the public groups, including this one and the OT can be read by anyone on the internet, and are included in search engines such as Google. Public groups are managed by site admins/editors, and new posts can only be bade by site authors.
Private groups cannot be seen by people who are not members, which also means that they cannot be seen by people not logged in or search engines.
I see several options when it comes to "privacy" (Note: I put privacy in quotes because the policy of the site is still to let anyone join who is not an obvious spammer or has previously been banned). - Keep things as is. - Create a new type of public group that can only be seen by logged in members. - Make it so all public groups can only be seen by logged in members. - Something else????
Over the past week, I've made a number of minor enhancements to the site, largely behind the scenes with backups, session management, logging, and admin interfaces.
The key user-side feature being released is "Ignore."
Go to someone's profile page (the easiest way is by clicking on their avatar next to a comment), and there is an option to ignore the person.
When ignoring a person, you will not see any comments they make, and in other places you will not see their name or avatar. A list of people you are ignoring will be show on the left side, with links to take you back to their profile and stop ignoring them.
Please note that due to the way new comment counts are kept, when you ignore and stop ignoring a person the counts may not be updated immediately or accurately.
The person you are ignoring has no way of knowing that you are doing so, and that person can still see all of your posts in public groups and private groups that you are both members of.
I also fixed an issue when editing where multiple line breaks were collapsed into one.
Income:
33.38 July 2011 Paypal donation
130.00 August 4 2011 Montero donations
43.59 August 2011 Paypal donation
23.97 December 2011 Paypal donation
40.00 December 12 2011 Oceans 8 donations
144.75 June 2012 Paypal donation
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418.69 Total Income
Expenses:
151.20 VPSLink hosting charges July 29 2011 to July 29 2012
24.34 GoDaddy lifeinbkln.com domain registration July 28 2011 to July 28 2013
22.34 GoDaddy lifeinbklyn.com domain registration Sep 1 2011 to Sep 1 2013
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197.88 Total Expenese
220.81 Balance
Note: Paypal amounts are after they take their cut of a few percent.
I know that you've been super-busy but I wonder if, when you have the time and energy, you would consider one or more of these requests:
1. An "ignore" button. I don't want to see the What's posts anymore. Seriously.
2. Removal of an author to delete responses to his/her post when s/he deletes his/her own post. The responses will stand for themselves.
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Yesterday, the site went down due to a hardware failure at our hosting provider.
During the day they said they were restoring it, and it would come back.
This morning when I asked for a status update, they said the server was lost, and no data could be recovered.
I was making backups of the site, but was storing them on the same server, so they were all lost as well.
In the past, I also copied backups to a different server, but due to procrastination I never set up that process for the new site.
Right now, the site is running on the same server that I run various personal and other web sites on.
It should be fine here, but I will start looking into other options for hosting. My strong preference is to have the site on a virtual private server by itself in order to segregate lifeinbklyn from the other sites I run, as well as to let the two servers back each other up.
I am sorry for the inconvenience and the loss of data.
-Scott
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